1. It was forbiddingly dark in the corridor.

2. The days were bright with snow, the nights forbiddingly dark.

3. Though forbiddingly dry, the Simpson Desert has aquifers and floodplains that make parts of it ideal livestock-grazing country.

4. This forbiddingly arid region covers 56,000 square miles (145,000 square kilometers) of central Australia and boasts some of the largest sand dunes in the world.

5. Mr Obama remains a forbiddingly powerful president, with a 64% approval rating and a Republican Party that is in a shambles.

6. Meredith glanced up uncertainly at the four-storey buildings soaring up forbiddingly on either side of the alley where they were walking.

7. To travelers arriving from the north, the island seems forbiddingly antipodal and cold.

8. A recent study by economists at UBS, a Swiss bank, suggested that the costs in each of these eventualities would be forbiddingly high.

9. At the time of this photo, little was known about bearded seals, due to their forbiddingly frigid habitat and aquatic lifestyle.

10. It was a brave little house with a big, tumbledown barn and fields that sloped into forests beyond. The days were bright with snow,[/forbiddingly.html] the nights forbiddingly dark.

11. Among his mature works, the best known are the forbiddingly titled Our Socialism Centred on the Masses Shall Not Perish and On the Art of the Cinema.

12. I stood on tiptoe, face upward and back straightened, to hand the cloth-wrapped bundle onto the counter. How strange the pawnbroker should have put up a counter so forbiddingly high.